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Friday, November 15, 2013

Building to the Climax

Today is the 15th of November, which means that
we’re exactly halfway through the month, and we should be halfway through our
novels. That’s the plan anyway.

I started out the month pretty slow. My first two days, I did great. But then I got pretty sick, and I had to work
on top of it, then at work I was working three people’s jobs instead of one. So yeah, I didn’t get much written for about
5 days.

I’ve been furiously trying to catch up this week though. I had to get blood drawn on Wednesday, and
while I sat in the waiting room, I wrote.
While I waited for the doctor to see me, I wrote. My husband has to go into work early and we
carpool so I bring a notebook with me and I write. Lunch breaks are dedicated to writing. And I think I’m finally caught up again.

But now that I’m halfway through, I’m to the exciting
part. Over is the beginning, the
building and the setting everything in place for the blam. I’m there now, and I get so excited that I
want to write, I just can’t help it. I
was talking to a friend on Tuesday, and I explained to her that writing is
great. It’s just like giving myself really
hard homework every single day and I have to do it and sacrifice other things
that I wish I could be doing.

But then there’s that joy when the millions of pieces that I
spread out over the rising action begin to come together to form the puzzle. The picture is getting clearer and though the
end isn’t in sight, it’s got me hooked. And when the writer's hooked, the story gets written, right?

So that’s where I am right now, my bare bones first draft is
at 25,000 words, and I’m halfway through my outline. Which is good because I didn’t get a chance
to beef up the second half of my outline.
So I’ll probably have enough that I won’t have to worry about not having
something to write after 45,000 words.

How about all of you?
How are you doing? Got any goals
you’re working towards?